{"id":4026,"date":"2023-12-21T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2023-12-23T07:53:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T12:53:34","slug":"covid-rising-in-england-and-scotland-as-new-variant-spreads-around-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-rising-in-england-and-scotland-as-new-variant-spreads-around-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid rising in England and Scotland as new variant spreads around world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snow might not be swirling in the UK but Covid is in the air this Christmas, data has revealed, with experts warning a new variant is on the rise around the world.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), an estimated 4.2%, or one in 24 people, in England and Scotland had Covid on 13&nbsp;December compared with 1.8% \u2013 or one in 55 \u2013 on 29&nbsp;November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow might not be swirling in the UK but Covid is in the air this Christmas, data has revealed, with experts warning a new variant is on the rise around the world.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), an estimated 4.2%, or one in 24 people, in England and Scotland had Covid on 13&nbsp;December compared with 1.8% \u2013 or one in 55 \u2013 on 29&nbsp;November.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-rising-in-england-and-scotland-as-new-variant-spreads-around-world\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Covid rising in England and Scotland as new variant spreads around world<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,752,405,651,751,55,14,753,230,50,47],"class_list":["post-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-jn-1","tag-office-for-national-statistics","tag-omicron","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-scotland","tag-statistics","tag-united-kingdom","tag-variants","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4035,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions\/4035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}